| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
Subject Index |
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| Hialto, how he became brave, 496 |
| Hidatsa Indians, 111, 690 |
| Highlands of Scotland, the, magic to catch fish in, 18; St. Bride’s Day in, 134; iron as a charm against fairies in, 226; saying about combing hair at night in, 234; knots untied at marriage in, 241; beating the cow’s hide in, 538; Beltane fires in, 617–620; Hallowe’en fires in, 635; need-fire in, 641; story of the external soul in, 673 |
| Hilaria, festival of joy, 350 |
| Hindoo charm, 30; marriage, 34; trinity, 52; superstition, 114 |
| Hindoo Koosh, sacred cedar of the, 95; expulsion of demons in the, 557, 575 |
| Hindoos, 15, 101, 180, 343, 602, 669; of Southern India, 482 |
| Hippasus, torn to pieces by Bacchanals, 292 |
| Hippodamia and Pelops, 156 |
| Hippolytus, 4, 5, 301, 477 |
| Hippopotamus, ceremony after killing a, 523 |
| Hogmanay, Highland custom on, 538; song in the Isle of Man, 634 |
| Holiness, and pollution not differentiated by savages, 222; conceived as a dangerous virus, 474; as a dangerous physical substance which needs to be insulated, 594 |
| Holland, “killing the Hare” in, 452; Easter fires in, 617; the mistletoe in, 662 |
| Honduras, Indians of, 687 |
| Honey-wine, continence at brewing, 219 |
| Hooks used in magic, 27; to catch souls, 180, 185 |
| Horns, blown to ban witches, 561; to expel demons, 568 |
| Horse, prohibition to see a, 172; prohibition to ride, 174; last sheaf given to, 408, 460; corn-spirit as a, 459; “fatigue of the,” 460; “Cross of the,” 460; Virbius and the, 476; sacrificed to Mars, 478, 578; red, sacrificed as a purification of the land, 570 |
| Horse-headed Demeter, 471 |
| Horses, Hippolytus killed by, 5, 301; excluded from Arician grove, 5, 477; sacrificed to the sun, 79; driven through the need-fire, 639, 640 |
| Horus, his eye injured by Typhon, 475; the younger, son of Isis and the dead Osiris, 364, 367 |
| Hos, of North-eastern India, 556; of Togoland, 232, 239, 241, 555 |
| Hother, the blind god, and Balder, 608 |
| Hottentots, 45, 80, 221, 265 |
| House, taboos observed after building a new, 117; ceremony on entering a new, 186; taboos on quitting the, 200 |
| House-building, 30; continence observed at, 220 |
| Housebreakers, charms employed by, 30 |
| Howitt, A. W., 44, 234 |
| Hudson Bay Territory, 605 |
| Huichol Indians of Mexico, 23, 32 |
| Huitzilopochtli, or Vitzilipuztli, a great Mexican god, 488 |
| Human sacrifices. See under Sacrifices |
| Hungary, Whitsuntide Queen in, 131; continence at sowing in, 138; harvest cock in, 451; custom at threshing in, 458; women fertilised by being struck with certain sticks in, 581; Midsummer fires in, 627, 644 |
| Hunters, employ homoeopathic magic to ensure a catch, 18; taboos observed by and for, 19, 20, 23; employ contagious magic of footprints, 45; tabooed, 216; chastity of, 217; propitiation of wild animals by, 518–532; luck of, spoiled by menstruous women, 605–606 |
| Hurons, 144, 179, 527, 550 |
| Husband, taboos observed in his absence, 21–25; his name not to be pronounced, 248, 249; and wife, name given to two fire-sticks, 484 |
| Huzuls of the Carpathians, 20, 234, 541, 638 |
| Hyaenas, supposed power over men’s shadows, 190 |
| Hymn to Demeter, Homeric, 393 |
| Hymns to Demetrius Poliorcetes, 97; to Tammuz, 326 |
| Hyrrockin, a giantess, 608 |
| Ibadan, king of, 295 |
| Ibans of Sarawak, 531 |
| Ibn Batutah, 145 |
| Ibos of the lower Niger, 685 |
| Iddah, divinity claimed by king of, 99 |
| Ignorrotes, the, 115 |
| Ijebu tribe, 281 |
| Ilocanes of Luzon, the, 113 |
| Images, magical, 13, 14; dipped in water as a rain-charm, 77; of Osiris made of vegetable mould, 374–377; vicarious use of, 492; of gods, suggested origin of, 501; demons conjured into, 563, 568; colossal, filled with human victims and burnt, 654 |
| Imagination, death from, 204 |
| Immortality, Egyptian hope of, centred in Osiris, 367, 376, 382; hope of, associated with the Eleusinian mysteries, 398 |
| Impregnation of women by the sun, 603 |
| Inca, fast of the future, 595 |
| Incarnation, of gods in human form, 91; examples of temporary, 93; of divine spirit in Shilluk kings, 267, 268 |
| Incas of Peru, 40, 104, 236, 553 |
| Incense, inhaled to produce inspiration, 95; used in exorcism, 195; burnt at the rites of Adonis, 337; burnt in honour of the Queen of Heaven, 337; burnt as a protection against witches, 561 |
| Incest, 141, 332 |
| India, ascendency of sorcerers over gods in modern, 52; rain-charm in, 71; incarnate human gods in, 93, 100; ceremony of rebirth in, 197; story of the transference of human souls in, 184; images of Siva and Pârvatî married in, 319–320; human sacrifices in, 433; use of animals as scapegoats in, 565; girls secluded at puberty in, 602; torture of suspected witches in, 681 |
| ——, ancient, ceremony performed by persons supposed to have been dead in, 15; magical nature of ritual in, 53; magical power of kings in, 89; maxim not to look at one’s reflection in water in, 192 |
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